Waco ISD dominates regional history fair
Waco ISD dominates regional history fair
Posted on 02/13/2012
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Nathan Wells won first place in the Senior Division Individual Exhibit category with research entitled "Censorship: Suppressing the Obscene."

Forty-one students earn trip to Austin

Get the charter bus ready! Forty-one students representing five Waco ISD campuses have earned a trip to Texas History Day blowing away the competition at the Heart of Texas Regional History Fair at Baylor University on February 10. This number of statebound history buffs breaks the old record of 34 set in 2009.

History fair competitors qualify for the state meet by placing first or second at the ...regional fair. The categories include individual exhibit, group exhibit, individual performance, group performance, individual documentary, group documentary, individual website, group website and historical paper.

Having the most first-, second-, and third-place finishers at the regional fair resulted in a sweepstakes award for Waco High teachers Courtney Copas, Kenneth Heller, Neil Shanks and Lyssa Davoust. Copas also was awarded the Calvin B. Smith Outstanding Teacher Award. Waco ISD students also dominated when it came to the special awards.

The tables below list the state qualifiers and special award winners.

Senior Division

STUDENT(S) SCHOOL PLACING AWARD PROJECT
Corey Roberts Waco High 1st Place Historical Paper Frank J. Robinson
Matthew Reynolds Waco High 2nd Place Historical Paper You Say You Want a Reformation
Nathan Wells Waco High 1st Place Individual Exhibit Censorship: Suppressing the Obscene
Jameson White Waco High 2nd Place Individual Exhibit Bismarck: King Without a Crown
Andy Pendleton, Brandon Harrison, Samantha Koehler, Bea Baker Waco High 1st Place Group Exhibit Chaos to Communism
Brooke Williams, Jessica Pinon, Amy Daughters Waco High 2nd Place Group Exhibit Seneca Falls Convention: A Turning Point in the History of Women's Rights
Jordan Blain, Reed Cooper, Kristen Chapman, Stefan White Waco High 1st Place Group Performance The Haitian Revolution: Freedom Reformed
Matthew Johnson Waco High 1st Place Individual Documentary Antitrust
Jordyn Guardiola Waco High 2nd Place Individual Documentary WAAC
Christopher Daughters, Dakota McDurham Waco High 1st Place Group Documentary The National Parks: Environmental Revolution
Olan Blount, Jonathan Vela, Jason Northcutt, Kurt Kranz Waco High 2nd Place Group Documentary Mozart
Evan Cooper Waco High 1st Place Individual Websites Communicating Across the Miles: Morse Code Face to Face
Monique Alexander AJ Moore 2nd Place Individual Websites Voices of Many Generations
Allen Miller, Tarean Stotts Waco High 1st Place Group Websites The Sharpville Massacre: A Turning Point of Equality, March 21, 1960

Junior Division

STUDENT(S) SCHOOL PLACING AWARD PROJECT
Alex Gil Lake Air Intermediate 2nd Place Individual Exhibit The Germ Theory: Revolution in Medicine
Hanna Siram, Alleigh Jennings Tennyson Middle 1st Place Group Exhibit Revolution in Medical Care: The Dorothea Dix Story
Jasmyne Gaither, Gabrielle Robles, Pitchayapa Jingjit University Middle 2nd Place Group Exhibit Every Ear Hears a Choo-Choo: Transcontinental Railroad
Haley Miller Tennyson Middle 1st Place Individual Performance Title IX and the Revolution in Collegiate Women's Athletics
Kasey Helms, Makayla Campbell, Ciera Black, Josue Morales Lake Air Intermediate 2nd Place Group Performance William Frederick Poole and the Indexing Revolution
Sylvia Conatser Tennyson Middle 1st Place Individual Documentary Revolution In Texas 1800-1836
Tanner Haney Lake Air Intermediate 2nd Place Individual Documentary Curt Flood: Free Agency in Baseball
Bennett Johnson, Scott DuPuy, Louie Martinez Tennyson Middle 1st Place Group Documentary The Beatles
Alizea Alonzo, Ana Balderas Lake Air Intermediate 2nd Place Group Website The Free Press Revolution of John Peter Zenger

Special Awards

RECIPIENT(S) SCHOOL AWARD PROJECT TITLE
Tanner Haney Lake Air Intermediate Oral History Award, Baylor University Curt Flood: Free Agency in Baseball
Nathan Wells Waco High Baylor School of Law Award- Sr Div Censorship: Suppressing the Obscene
Estalla Kim, Karly Sanders Lake Air Intermediate Baylor School of Law Award- Jr Div The Endangered Species Act
Devan Mays Waco High Historic Waco Foundation Award - Sr Division Branch Davidians
Gavin Thompson, Nicholas Rodriquez, Logan Guardiola, Christian Barrientos Tennyson Middle Historic Waco Foundation Award - Sr Division The Desegration of Waco - A Revolution in Race Relations
Natalie Tejada Hillcrest Elementary PDS National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Henry Downs Chapter Benedict Arnold: Patriot or Traitor
Alizea Alonzo, Ana Balderas Lake Air Intermediate National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in Texas, Waco Town Committee The Free Press Revolution of John Peter Zenger
Skyler Ramos University Middle The Links, Inc.- Jr Division Jim Brown
Jonathan Jones, Kyrese Benjamin, David Gomez GW Carver The Links, Inc.- Jr Division The Revolution of Boxing
Sierra Kirbie Waco High The Links, Inc.- Sr. Division The 9 Who Dared
Gavin Thompson, Nicholas Rodriquez, Logan Guardiola, Christian Barrientos Tennyson Middle Waco History Project The Desegration of Waco - A Revolution in Race Relations
Kenneth Woods, Deion Parker University Middle Waco History Project The Pearl Harbor Hero: Doris Miller
Derby Carlson Hillcrest Elementary PDS Museum Assoication of Waco - Jr. Division Impressionism: The Artists' Revolt
Nathan Wells Waco High Museum Assoication of Waco - Sr. Division Censorship: Suppressing the Obscene
Alizea Alonzo, Ana Balderas Lake Air Intermediate Red Men Museum and Library The Free Press Revolution of John Peter Zenger
Jameson White Waco High Texas German Society - Heart of Texas Chapter Bismarck: King Without a Crown
Ericel Suarez, Cesar Mendoza Brazos Middle Jewel Moorman Award Red Power Movement
Reed Cooper Waco High Ada Margaret Smith
Sylvia Conatser and Teacher Mary Duty Tennyson Middle Historic Waco Foundation Sweepstakes Award
Andy Pendleton Waco High Baylor University Ruben Santo Scholarship
Teachers: Courtney Copas, Lyssa Davoust, Ken Heller, Neal Shanks Waco High Baylor History Department Sweeps Award Most First, Second, and Third place winners
Teacher: Courtney Copas Waco High Calvin B. Smith Award Outstanding Teacher Sponsor of the 2012 Heart of Texas Regional History Fair